Legend has it that when H. Rider Haggard read Treasure Island
he was so underwhelmed that he bet five shillings he could do better.
He proceeded to combine the recent discovery of diamonds at Kimberly, South
Africa and of the great Zimbabwe Ruins, the real-life exploits of explorers
like Richard Francis Burton, the legend of the lost kingdom of Prester
John, a treasure map, a witch doctor, and many more classic and soon-to-be-classic
elements into one of the great adventures stories of all time. Allan
Quartermain, Sir Henry Curtis, and Captain John Good trek deep into the
heart of deepest Africa in search of Sir Henry's brother and of the lost
mines of King Solomon. Along the way they encounter all manner of
hardship, escape from innumerable seemingly impossible predicaments,
restore a lost king to his rightful throne, and are well rewarded for their
efforts.

This is all just rip roaring good fun and, for obvious reasons, spawned
many sequels and scores of imitators. If you've ever wondered precisely
what the Indiana Jones movies are a homage to : pick this book up and wonder
no more.

Comments:

I think that the reveiw was good but that you left out a lot of things. For example: you left out why you thought it was good. Also, half of the reveiw was not actually a reveiw, it was how H. Rider Haggard came to write the book. Sure, it was informational, but not an A+ reveiw. The book was awesome though.